Philadelphia police have spent the last month looking for a man accused of being involved in at least three murders and several sexual assaults. Last night, it appeared that the hunt had finally come to an end, when a group of community members gathered outside the home of 24-year-old Triz Jefferies, who was identified as the so-called 'Kensington Strangler' by a group of vigilantes organized through Facebook. As it turns out, though, they got the wrong guy.Jefferies, for whatever reason, had become the target of the investigation, after community members began circulating flyers, text messages, and Facebook posts identifying him as the killer. Amateur crime fighters even created a Facebook group, titled 'Catch the Kensington Strangler, before he catches someone you love.' The group featured Jefferies's picture, and attracted over 8,000 members. Police became aware of the group on Monday, and took down the page, on the grounds that Jefferies wasn't a suspect. But that didn't stop the mob from pursuing him.
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